Penhaligon's

Sartorial

2010
Savile Row in a bottle — beeswax, wool, and lavender composing a fougere that smells like the act of making rather than the finished product. Craft as fragrance.
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Sensory Profile

Sweetness Freshness Woodiness Intensity Longevity Complexity

Composition

Concentration Eau de Toilette
Style Modern
Notable Ingredients
lavender beeswax leather violet leaf cyclamen honey oakmoss metallic accord

Olfactory Structure

Family Fougere
Evolution Moderate
Sillage 5/10

Character

Moods

sophisticated nostalgic comforting

Season

Autumn Winter

Occasion

Formal

Thematic Territory

A Savile Row fitting room. Bolts of wool, beeswax on thread, the iron's steam — the smell of craft before the suit is worn. Fougere as architecture.

Era & Context

Modern

Created in collaboration with Norton & Sons of Savile Row, capturing the sensory world of bespoke tailoring. Part of a broader 2010s trend of 'craft narrative' fragrances, but grounded in a real place and real materials rather than abstract storytelling.

Spiritual Links

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Leather Thread
Acqua di Parma Colonia Club
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Compositional Parallel
Creed Green Irish Tweed
6/10
Textural Kinship
Maison Margiela Jazz Club
6/10
Leather Thread
Amouage Beach Hut Man
6/10
Compositional Parallel
Givenchy Xeryus Rouge
6/10
Textural Kinship
Versace Dreamer
6/10
Textural Kinship
Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme
6/10
Compositional Parallel Textural Kinship
Le Labo Santal 33
5/10
Leather Thread
Diptyque Orpheon
5/10
Mood Convergence
Frederic Malle French Lover
5/10
Woody Foundation

Influences

Absorbed from

Comme des Garcons Wonderwood The concept of capturing a material craft process as scent, though Sartorial is more traditionally structured

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